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Rights for Breast Cancer Patients Are Improving

By Stephanie B. Goldberg ● Health & Science ● July 20, 2000

Breast cancer patients are now benefiting from a decade of activism, yet rights vary from state to state and Senate action is needed on insurance coverage for low-income women diagnosed with the disease.

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Stingy Medicare Rates Risk Women’s Health

By Melinda Voss ● Health & Science ● July 17, 2000

Government health insurance pays so little for the newer and more accurate Pap test for cervical cancer that many health care providers do not use them.

Disabled Women Often Avoid Routine Health Exams

By Vickie Beck ● Health & Science ● July 17, 2000

The gynecologist’s table is 35 inches high; the wheelchair 19 inches. Mammogram equipment also creates significant difficulties for disabled women. There are strong disincentives to seeking annual exams.

Equal Time in Girls-Only Computer Clubs

By Sarah L. Rasmusson ● Health & Science ● July 5, 2000

Community and private organizations are taking up the challenge to bring underserved girls across the digital divide. The need is great, according to a recent study, and for those who are making it to the other side, the rewards are mega.

Note to Researchers: Build Trust, Get Us There

By Melinda Voss ● Health & Science ● June 14, 2000

The final part of our series on the failure to include women in medical research focuses on the steps scientists may take to increase the number of female participants.

Women Scientists Need More Room for Their Views

By Laura Marble ● Arts & Culture ● June 8, 2000

When women enter a scientific profession, be it engineering, medical research or computer technology, the discipline’s agenda shifts, either slightly or dramatically.

Medical journals do not ask if sex affects results

By Melinda Voss ● Arts & Culture ● June 3, 2000

Our contributing health editor continues her three-part report on the failure of medical researchers to analyze their results by gender.

Despite Law, Gender Ignored by Medical Research

By Melinda Voss ● Arts & Culture ● May 27, 2000

Latest government study reveals that the law requiring women be included in federally funded medical research is being ignored.

Approval for Abortion Drug In Jeopardy, Still

By Cynthia L. Cooper ● Health & Science ● May 19, 2000

The drugs that could change the terms of the abortion debate by permitting women to end pregnancies early still have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. A bill barring their approval is in Congress. Bush says he opposes them, too.

Prenatal poverty may cause more harm than drugs

By Jean E. Herskowitz ● Health & Science ● May 11, 2000

Philadelphia study of two sets of poor young children indicates that on tests of their learning abilities, the children of mothers who used cocaine did as well as the control group.